Skin Game

Speculative fiction is a broad umbrella category of narrative fiction referring to any fiction story that includes elements, settings and characters whose features are created out of imagination and speculation rather than based on attested reality and everyday life. That encompasses the genres of science fiction, fantasy, science fantasy, horror, alternative history, and magic realism.

Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day...

Because as Winter Knight to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Harry never
knows what the scheming Mab might want him to do. Usually, it’s
something awful.

He doesn’t know the half of it...

Mab has just traded Harry’s skills to pay off one of her debts. And now
he must help a group of supernatural villains — led by one of Harry’s most
dreaded and despised enemies, Nicodemus Archleone — to break into the
highest-security vault in town so that they can then access the
highest-security vault in the Nevernever.

It’s a smash-and-grab job to recover the literal Holy Grail from the
vaults of the greatest treasure horde in the supernatural world — which
belongs to the one and only Hades, Lord of the freaking Underworld and
generally unpleasant character. Worse, Dresden suspects that there is
another game afoot that no one is talking about. And he’s dead certain
that Nicodemus has no intention of allowing any of his crew to survive
the experience. Especially Harry.

Dresden’s always been tricky, but he’s going to have to up his
backstabbing game to survive this mess — assuming his own allies don’t end
up killing him before his enemies get the chance...

Jim Butcher (born 1971) is a New York Times best-selling author, who is best known for his contemporary fantasy book series The Dresden Files. He also writes the Codex Alera series. Jim Butcher grew up as the only son of his parents, and has two older sisters. He currently lives in Independence with his wife, Shannon K. Butcher (an author of romance novels), one son, James Joseph, and his guard dog, Frostbite Vondoom Butcher.

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